164円 They endured the torments of scurvy and the vagaries of deep fogs, adverse winds, and contrary currents. They suffered through appalling quarters and rotting food. They spent years away from their homes and families, never knowing whether they would return. Their orders from Spain might well arri...

1,200円 Portugal kann als einer der ältesten europäischen Staaten gelten: seine Grenzen zu Spanien hin haben sich seit dem 13. Jahrhundert bis heute kaum verändert. Dieser Staat hat seine Eigenständigkeit und Unabhängigkeit immer wieder zu wahren gewusst und gelegentlichen Bestrebungen zu einer pan-iberi...

3,800円 Francisco Franco in Spanien und António de Oliveira Salazar in Portugal waren fast 40 Jahre lang an der Macht. Das schwierige Erbe der Diktaturen prägt die Geschichte der beiden iberischen Staaten bis heute - sei es durch zahlreiche Prozesse der Aufarbeitung, sei es durch revisionistische Beschön...

11,109円 An excellent introduction to Franco's rise to power and his four decades as autocratic head of state in Spain.

20,706円 Justice in the Marketplace in Early Modern Spain examines two late scholastic economic treatises, the Provechoso tratado de cambios of Cristóbal de Villalón (1542) and the Instrución de mercaderes of Saravia de la Calle (1544). It does this in the context of the two principal questions that econo...

300円 Dieses eBook: "Sagen von der Alhambra" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Diese Erzählsammlung ist eingebettet in eine Rahmenhandlung, in der der Autor seine Reise durch Spanien nach Andalusien beschreibt und eine allgeme...

6,244円 Despite worldwide interest in the Portuguese Revolution of 1974, Portugal remained for most people a little known and poorly understood country, neglected for years by social scientists. Editors Graham and Makler brought together for the first time in one substantive volume most of the leading so...

3,310円 In the iconography of the Peninsular War of 1808–14, women are well representedーboth as heroines, such as Agustina Zaragosa Domenech, and as victims, whether of starvation or of French brutality. In history, however, with its focus on high politics and military operations, they are invisibleーa ...

1,617円 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia. H...

5,632円 Capitán de Navío Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was the most important Spanish naval officer on the Northwest Coast in the eighteenth century. Serving from 1774 to 1794, he participated in the search for the Northwest Passage and, with George Vancouver, endeavoured to forge a diplomatic res...

3,946円 The violent Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco's Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied explanation. Others, mainly Basques (but only some Basques) understood ...

4,951円 Whitelaw Reid, according to H. Wayne Morgan, was a “leading newspaperman, more than an occasional diplomat, a power in his party’s politics, a supporter of some of the best in his era’s culture . . . Of all his legacy, perhaps the record he left of his part in the Peace of Paris is the most signi...